staff

Eva Clarke
President & Chief Executive Officer

Eva was born in San Rafael, California, but when she was a young girl,
her family relocated first to East Saint Louis, Illinois and then to the neighboring
town of Belleville.
The experience of living in East Saint Louis during the city's stark
decline prompted her initial interest in community and economic development.
Eva left
Belleville in 1977 to attend the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology as a member of the class of 1981. She took a few
years off
to start a family and then returned to MIT where
she
earned
an
S.B.
degree
in
Urban
Studies
and
Planning in 1990.

In 1991 Eva joined the staff of Boston
Community Loan Fund * initially as a loan
officer, and subsequently rising to the position of Senior Loan Officer
and eventually Chief Operating Officer. In 2001 she left the Loan Fund to
found Faith
Partnership, inspired by her
dream of linking faith-based organizations to strategic resources in their
communities. Boston
Community Capital *, the loan fund's parent organization, provided
significant support for the new organization and served as its first fiscal
agent.

In January 2002, as the outcome of one of Faith Partnership's projects, Eva
agreed to serve as Executive Director of the Mattapan
Community Development Corporation *. In this role she gained a great
deal of practical experience in hands-on community development work, thus complementing
the skills she had acquired in her earlier career as a community development
lender. By this time Eva had also been serving for several years as a volunteer
pastor at New Covenant Christian Church (located in Boston, Massachusetts and
now
known
as
Jubilee
Christian Church International *). In the fall of 2002 she
joined the New Covenant staff on a part-time basis as their
Real Estate Administrator.

In February 2005 Eva left her position as Executive Director and spend the
next few months focusing on projects for Faith Partnership, and Life Church.
In November 2005 she became a managing consultant with Applied
Evaluation Systems (AES)*, the consulting enterprise of the Emmanuel
Gospel Center *. In October 2006 she left AES to join MMA
Financial as an Asset Manager and Assistant Vice President.

As an active member of the community she
volunteers with the following organizations: